24 Rookery Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 7DQ

24 Rookery Road is a mid-terrace house in Selly Oak, Birmingham, Birmingham (B29 7DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 182 m² (around 1959 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (December 2023) shows a C (score 75), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in April 2011 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83).

Today's modelled estimate of £419,000 is 18.6% below the 2022 sale of £515,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£263/sq ft) was about 114.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 182 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 31 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include HMO conversion, an extension and a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £515,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.